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Pluscuamperfecto vs. el pretérito anteriorGrammar questions– conjugations, verb tenses, adverbs, adjectives, word order, syntax, etc. |
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Have a look at Onoma and tick all the verb forms to be displayed:
pretérito perfecto compuesto
I'll stick my neck out here, and say that the two forms, pretérito pluscoamperfecto and pretérito anterior have the same translation in English, simply because the auxiliary verb haber is preterite in one and imperfect in the other, both translated as had in English. The difference is possible in Spanish simply because the auxiliary verb has two forms which are identical in English. ![]() |
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Okay, FIRST, I LOVE that website!! And do I understand correctly that they pull their conjugations from RAE and Molina, so they are rather accurate?? Wonderful!!!
Second, I am following everything you're saying here ... and that the translation in both cases goes to "had" in English... But what is the difference in the SENSE in Spanish. Why would an author choose to say "había empezado" one time and "hubo empezado" another time?
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I think you have to get used to the idea that there are nuances in any language which you can't translate into others, and I think this is one of them. Please somebody correct me there if I'm wrong. |
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Quite difficult question, even more difficult to explain it in English...
![]() ![]() Pretérito anterior is used to give an idea of immediateness ( ![]() En cuanto hubo empezado la película: almost just at the moment it started, just a few seconds later. However your first sentence (en cuanto había...) makes no sense for me (although Spanish speaking world is large and what I said doesn't mean that it is not used somewhere), I wouldn't use pluscuamperfecto with this sentence, I would have said: Se sentó cuando ya había empezado la película (this sentence doesn't have the sense of immediateness that p. anterior has). Bear in mind that p. anterior is not widely used, you may find it in written texts, but it's difficult to find it in spoken sentences. People is used to say the same with another words and another tenses: Nada más empezar la película, se sentó. En cuanto empezó la película, se sentó. No se sentó hasta que empezó la película. I hope it helps. ![]() |
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Thanks, Perikles & Irmamar - yes that is helpful. I know that not everything can be translated ... that's why I wanted to see if the *sense* could be explained to me. And I DO understand what you've said.
The sentence I gave as an example was the one used in the workbook, and I thought it was a bit strange myself with the "en cuanto" part... Anyway - this is all very helpful. Thank you all!! ![]()
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You're welcome.
![]() Perikles, there is a what I would define as a "barbaridad gramatical" in your link. When you look for a pronominal verb, you can see that both infinitivo and gerundio are conjugated ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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I would have to say that, even though they ought not be called "conjugations" for the infinitivo and gerundio, it helps to see those forms spelled out with the accents....
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But you must be very careful with that, since they say:
yo poderme tú poderte etc. as if yo were only able to be used with poderme, tú with poderte, etc., which can be missguiding, since: Yo quisiera poderme contentar con lo que tengo - Tú quisieras poderme liberar - A él le gustaría poderme ayudar - etc. Yo desearía poderte librar de tus ataduras - Tú deseas poderte vestir solo - Él quisiera poderte ayudar - etc. etc. By the way, I.O. pronoun, known as enclítico. ![]() |
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Fantastic! More grammar terms! Thanks!! ![]()
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![]() You might even be interested to know that in comes from the Greek en- onto and klinein to lean, because it leans backwards onto the previous word. ![]() ![]() |
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So, hang on a second. RAE says that enclítico is an adjectivo... When I first saw the word, I assumed it was a noun. So you would say something like: En la frase "puedo dárselo", el objeto 'se' enclítico se refiere a mi hermano.
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The word 'se' is enclitic (=adjective) An enclitic (word) causes problems with accents (=noun) |
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